Great Figures of the Civil Rights Movement

I am not going to write a full review of this one. This was a free audiobook from Audible. I am a fan of Civil Rights history so I was familiar at least in part with all of the people included here, but I think this is a good introduction to Civil Rights history. I skipped the chapters on MLK, Malcolm X, Rosa Parks, and Stokeley Carmichael because I have read full biographies, at least one each, on those three. But while those three were included, mostly the focus of this lecture series is on figures that are less well known, but essential to the Civil Rights Era movement.

While each lecture is really about an individual, the helpful context to those individuals allows for a good overview of the movement as a whole. The Civil Rights movement is too big and too important for anything to be the only book that you read/listen to. But this is a good introduction if your background of the Civil Rights movement is primarily Brown vs Board, Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus boycott, the I have a dream speech, and King's assassination.